Tag: Heart
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When the Heart Accuses – 1 John 3:19-20
1 John 3:19-20 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. John now speaks to something every believer eventually experiences. There are moments when the heart begins to accuse. A quiet…
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The Mercy of God’s No – James 4:3
James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James says something here that clears up a lot of confusion about prayer. Sometimes we ask and do not receive, not because God is distant, and not because He does not care, but because we are…
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What the Heart Is Really After – James 4:1–2
James 4:1, 2 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. James has been stripping things…
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True Wisdom Has a Different Spirit – James 3:13–14
James 3:13, 14 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. James is saying, “You want to know who…
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Written Within — Hebrews 8:10
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. This is one…